biography
Nyk de Vries (1971) was born in Friesland, a province in the northern part of the Netherlands. He is a writer and musician. Since 2000 he has written two novels and a collection of flash fiction, Motorman & 39 andere prozagedichten (Motorman & 39 other prose poems).

He regularly performs his prose poems, sometimes supported with music. Characteristic of him is his penetrating delivery. For 2010 he is scheduled to appear at the renowned poetry festival Poetry International in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. All his work has been published in both Frisian and in Dutch. Some of his texts have been translated into Spanish.

He is currently working on a new collection and an album entitled Ik dook in een baai (I Dived into a Bay), the CD version of his Motorman collection. Nyk de Vries lives and works in Amsterdam.

press here for more information on Nyk de Vries and for his work in English on Poetry International Web


prose poems
press here to read some prose poems

downloads
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links
myspace: www.myspace.com/nykdevries
facebook: www.facebook.com/nykdevries


contact
Nyk de Vries
PO Box 37778
1030 BJ Amsterdam
The Netherlands
nyk@nykdev.nl